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Erika Thulin Dawes is a Professor of Language and Literacy at Lesley University's Graduate School of Education, where she also serves as Department Chair and Program Director of the graduate Early Childhood Education program. With prior experience as an elementary classroom teacher, reading specialist, and district literacy administrator, she now focuses on mentoring educators in literacy methods and children's literature.
- BA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- M.Ed., Lesley University
- Ed.D., Columbia University Teachers College
Her research emphasizes early childhood literacy, children's literature, and literacy curriculum development, including frameworks for text complexity analysis and interdisciplinary teaching. She has authored multiple books and publications, including Teaching to Complexity and Teaching with Text Sets, and contributes to the Classroom Bookshelf blog.
Her publications span 2007-2014, focusing on literacy instruction, children's literature evaluation, and writing pedagogy. These works align with disciplinary themes in educational theory, curriculum design, and children's literature criticism.
- Chair of the Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children committee (2016-2018)
